Saturday, February 2, 2008

That's the Look I Was Going For...

I wasn't there, but Eileen Ford was and that's all that matters in the Ford Supermodel of the World contest, the granddaddy of all modeling contests. Though it was held in Manhattan, I only heard about it through friends in Asia who were all congratulating me that this year's winner of the $250,000 first prize was a 20 year-old Korean girl, Seung-hyun Kang. I immediately looked her up on the net, and was pleasantly surprised. Here was a Korean girl who hadn't done a thing to change her natural features--small eyes, low set nose, tiny mouth--and yet, the complete package was killer. She even goes by her Korean nickname, Hyoni. It didn't hurt that she's also 5'10 and the owner of a terribly fierce walk that leads with the shoulders. (Check her out at 1:07 and 2:44.) My entire life I've been ridiculed by both Asians and Westerners for my small eyes. I just feel so vindicated by Hyoni's win, the first Asian to emerge victorious in the contest's 28-year history. So, you go girl, and own the runway and get your picture taken for Vogue. My small eyes today are shining large and bright.

Yeah, I love her! She's really adorable in the videos I've found of her on youtube. As for small eyes, well, we live in a society where "bigger is better" still lives on... and it's not just eyes, but let's not even GO there...

The "bigger is better" mentality annoys me when it applies to products I buy. I live in a small apartment. I don't WANT to buy 72 oz. of mouthwash or dish liquid or a family-size pack of food when I can't store it all or eat it all. Where'd the small stuff go?

I do remember you. It was a while back that I left you a message. Thanks for reading the blog. I take living with HIV in stride. Some days I feel normal, others, just absolutely psycho... lol... I'll be checking out your blog too!

About Me

Those of us living with HIV are all too often relegated to an even deeper closet where we turn into something less than human--a statistic. With about one million HIV+ individuals in this country of 303,000,000, that comes out to about one in three hundred. I am one of them.